JPH082666B2 - Print processing device - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Outline] When a document processing apparatus prints, it is a processing apparatus for automatically identifying and printing the use of vertical and horizontal glyphs.

Characters that use different glyphs for vertical writing and horizontal writing, such as the long syllabary of Japanese documents, are stored in the document only in horizontal writing, for example, and a character string that is aligned at right angles to the printing direction is detected during printing, Characters having two glyphs among them are processed so that the glyph that is different from the glyphs of the characters arranged in the printing direction is printed.

With this device, if one character shape is created without considering the character shape when creating a document, the required character shape is automatically selected at the time of printing.

[Industrial applications]

The present invention relates to a print processing device for selecting a print character in a Japanese document processing device or the like.

For kana characters in Japanese documents, glyphs, syllabic characters, consonants, and other characters that are used in different characters are used for horizontal writing and vertical writing, as is well known. It needs to be decided.

[Conventional technology]

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of the document processing apparatus.

The processing device 1 executes a program loaded in the main storage device 2 to create a document by, for example, a command, data, etc. input from the keyboard / display device 4, and the external storage device 3 according to the created document according to the command. The stored document can be read from the external storage device 3 and output to the printing device 5 or the like.

The printing device 5 receives, for example, a print character string of one line and predetermined control information from the processing device 1 character by character, and sequentially prints on the set paper.

The basic form of a document in the document processing apparatus is normally a horizontal writing document as shown in FIG. 3A, and all documents displayed on the keyboard / display device 4 for creating / updating are also horizontal writing.

However, it may be necessary to write vertically in documents for office work, etc. By printing at the time of printing, each character is tilted 90 degrees and printed vertically as shown in Fig. 3 (b). Obtaining written documents is well known.

However, some characters have different glyphs for horizontal writing and vertical writing.For those characters, simply write the character pattern.
Instead of rotating 90 °, it is necessary to select the prepared character patterns for horizontal writing and vertical writing.

Examples of characters that require two types of horizontal writing and vertical writing in this way are the long syllabary and consonant “tsu” shown in FIG. 4, and others.

The use of these two types of glyphs is specified for the entire document at the time of printing, or according to the horizontal writing / vertical writing specified in a part of the document by a predetermined control symbol or the like.
When printing the entire document or a designated portion in a format as shown in FIG. 3 (a) or (b), control for automatically selecting one of the character shapes is performed.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

In the automatic selection control method as described above, for example, as shown in FIG. 5, a vertically aligned character string such as “A group” in the figure is arranged in a horizontal document as a whole. In this case, the glyph intended by the document creator cannot be specified.

In this case, for example, as the long-sound symbol in the "A group", a vertical writing style is used in the document. Although it is possible to create a vertical writing character string by specifying, in general, when such a specifying method is adopted, the compatibility of horizontal writing / vertical writing of the created document is lost. As such, it is desirable to represent all characters in the document, for example, in horizontal writing mode.

[Means for solving problems]

 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of processing showing the configuration of the present invention.

The figure shows the flow of the printing process for one line, where 10 is a character string and determination unit, 11 is a character shape selection unit, and 12 is a print control unit.

[Work]

When printing each line of a document, the character string arrangement determination unit 10 determines whether the character is a character in the character string in the direction perpendicular to the printing direction when each character has two types of characters for horizontal writing / vertical writing. Is determined by, for example, that the front and back of the character are predetermined symbol characters such as ruled lines.

According to the determination result, the glyph selecting unit 11 selects a glyph that is different from the glyphs of the character strings arranged in the printing direction in the case of the character string in the right-angled direction, and selects the same glyph in other cases, and performs print control. Deliver to Part 12.

According to this method, the character shapes of the character strings arranged in the direction perpendicular to the character string arrangement direction of the entire document are automatically selected.

〔Example〕

The processor 1 executes the process of FIG. 1 for each line of the document in the course of the normal document printing process.

When the printing process of each line of the document is started, processing step 20
Takes out one character in the line and passes it to the character string arrangement determination unit 10.

In processing step 21, the character string arrangement determination unit 10 identifies whether the character has two types of characters for horizontal writing / vertical writing, and if the characters are horizontal writing / vertical writing and has the same character shape, prints immediately. The character is passed to the control unit 12.

When the character is a character having two types of horizontal writing / vertical writing, the process proceeds to processing step 22, and the characters adjacent before and after the character are compared with a predetermined character and the result is held.

As the predetermined character to be compared, for example, (a character to be compared with the immediately preceding character) (Character to compare with the next character) However, if the character to be judged is at the end of the line and there is no character immediately before or immediately after it, it is considered that they match in comparison.

The character string arrangement determination unit 10 passes the comparison result to the character shape selection unit 11.

In the processing step 23, the character shape selecting unit 11 branches depending on whether the front and rear sides match or not, depending on the comparison result, and when the front and rear sides match, it is determined that the character string is perpendicular to the printing direction. In process step 24, a glyph that is different from the glyphs of the character strings arranged in the printing direction is selected. That is,
For example, when the whole is printed horizontally, the character shape for vertical writing is selected.

Except when the comparison result is the same before and after, the processing step
With 25, the same glyph as the glyph of the character string arranged in the printing direction is selected.

The character shape selection unit 11 passes the selected character shape to the print control unit 12. The print control unit 12 executes control for causing the printing device 5 to print a specified character as usual. Thereafter, in processing step 26, it is determined whether or not the processing for one line is completed, and if not processed, the processing returns to processing step 20.

Even if the whole document is horizontally written as in the example of FIG. 5, the process described above is performed in a format as shown in FIG. It is obvious that the same applies to the case where there is a horizontal character string lined up in.

〔The invention's effect〕

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, in document printing in a document processing apparatus, glyphs of character strings arranged in a direction perpendicular to the arrangement direction of character strings of the entire document are automatically selected. Therefore, there is a remarkable industrial effect that a document processing device that is easy to create a document is configured.

[Brief description of drawings]

 FIG. 1 is a flow chart of processing showing the configuration of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a block diagram of a configuration example of a document processing apparatus, FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram of horizontal writing / vertical writing printing, and FIG. , FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram of an example of a document. In the figure, 1 is a processing device, 2 is a main storage device, 3 is an external storage device, 4 is a keyboard / display device, 5 is a printing device, 10 is a character string arrangement determination unit, 11 is a character shape selection unit, and 12 is print control. Parts 20 to 26 indicate processing steps.

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Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A print processing apparatus for printing a document including characters having two different glyphs according to vertical writing and horizontal writing in a predetermined printing direction so as to be either vertical writing or horizontal writing. A means (10) for detecting a character having the two types of glyphs from a character to be printed, a direction detecting means (11) for detecting a line direction of a character string to which the detected character belongs, and the character string Means for printing the detected characters by selecting a glyph corresponding to printing in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction from the two types of glyphs when it is detected that the characters are aligned in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction. A print processing apparatus having (11, 12). 2. The direction detecting means determines that the characters are arranged in a character string arranged in a direction perpendicular to the printing direction by arranging predetermined symbol characters adjacent to the front and rear of the detected character. The print processing apparatus according to claim 1.